Garment-pad.



PATENTED MAR. 6, 1906.

R. RAPHAEL.

GARMENT PAD.

APPLIUATION FILED 116.11.1905.

ROBERT RAPHAEL, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

GARNIENT-PAD.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented March 6, 1906,

Application filed August 1I, 1905. Serial No. 273,787.

To ad whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ROBERT RAPHAEL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented new and useful Improvements in Garment-Pads, of which the following is a specification.

My invention is a garment-pad, and more particularly a pad for the shoulders and sleeves of coats.

The object of the invention is to provide an improved pad to insure a proper iit of the shoulders and sleeves of the garment; and to this end the invention consists in certain novel features of construction hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a plan view of the pad. Fig. 2 is a sectional view on the line 2 2 of Fig. I. Fig. 3 is a plan View of the stiifening-sheet. Fig. 4 is a plan view of a modified form of the stiffening-sheet. Fig. 5 is a diagrammatic view showing the manner in which the pad is used.

Referring specifically to the drawings, 5 denotes the shoulder-pad, and 6 the sleevepad. Both pads have a substantially segmental shape, and they are sewed together, as at 7, before attachment to the garment instead of being attached thereto separately, The pads are sewed together at their straight edges, their curved edges being thus presented'in Opposite directions. The pads are sewed together along only a part of the length of their straight edges or at one end, so that the other ends thereof extend lengthwise beyond each other, as shown in Figl. vThis causes one pad to fit the shoulder and the other to fit in the top Of the sleeve. The amount of such extension can be varied according to the particular relative position with respect to each other, which it may be desired that the two pads shall have and which will depend on the shape of the person` Y The pads are attached to the garment after being sewed together, as herein described,

by sewing the pad 5 to the shoulder portion of the arm-scye, with the pad 6 projecting into the armhole. Upon sewing on the sleeve the pad 6 is sewed to the top of the upper end thereof adjacent the shoulder. The pad 5 will be located On the arm-scye to suit the shape of the erson.

Each of t e pads herein described comprises a cover 8, of suitable fabric, which incloses the wadding 9, of which there may be as many layers as required. Between the wadding is placed a stiffening-sheet to hold the pad in shape and prevent it from flattening out. This sheet is made of canvas, haircloth, or other suitable fabric, (indicated at 11,) to which is secured, by sewing or otherwise, crossed strips 12 of featherbone or other suitable stiffening material. The stiening-sheet can also be formed of a sheet of featherbone constructed by weaving the strips together. This modification is shown in Fig. 4.,

By the arrangement herein described the pad 5 gives shape to the shoulder and the pad 6 to the sleeve, and by reinforcing the pads, as stated, wrinkling of the shoulder and sleeve is prevented and said parts are held in proper shape.

Having thus described my invention, what is claimed as new, and desired to be secured by Letters Patent, is-

A garment-pad comprising two substantially segmental-shaped members which are connected alonga portion of their straight edges, whereby said members are offset from each other longitudinally, and their curved edges are oppositely presented.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ROBERT RAPHAEL.

Vitnesses:

WM. J. ROBINSON, SIGNA FELTsKOG, 

